Verse Around the Neck of Air

Wikipedia Poem, No. 84

“Her job was to set the house in order.” Raymond Carver

Carver
calm soda
and
chasing
to
drink
50 year
blue-collections as critic
His
fame
too wears
the luckiest
resortmen
not having admirably come
native writing
chronology
of
loneliness
news of
love “We Talk” limply in
a New York Time
of Review that
a poet a poetry is from the critical stomachs an envelope
with
two
warm works in vitality of short starts
the fall of
poetry, waitress, so he
me to havoc in
a string of stories
of Gabriel . . . . . .
. . .
. .
. .
. . .
. .
.
.
the
technique.
So
he
managed
to Or
his parents’ bed
a Nation of
still milkshakes artful but
sold
Molly
children collect
one aware
touch
of
a lifelong
movie
a collection of
story and Molly before
sitting book Reviews of
lung clasped offal and “felt-in”
warm world
where he wrote
He backs
a vocabulary
stable with unspoiled with
whom he
betrayals but
remembrance
a story of
last looking too weary far
for